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Faisalabad: Case against shopkeeper for beating former worker

Faisalabad: Case against shopkeeper for beating former worker

FAISALABAD: JhangBazaarpolice on Thursday registered a case against a shopkeeper accused of beating a former employee, shaving his head and parading him through streets on a donkey for his refused to give testimony in a theftcase. The boy, Aqeel, was then handed over to the police and charged with theft in the same case. Aqeel was released on Thursday for lack of evidence. The original complaint filed by MuzaffarColony resident KashifSiddiqi, the shopkeeper, on Wednesday accused seven unidentified men of stealing goods from his shop on JhangRoad in PratabNagar.

Aqeel told police that his name was added because he had refused to give testimony against some men Siddiqi wanted to accuse. He said he was abducted from his house by Siddiqi and his brothers and taken to the shop where they detained before he was handed over to the police. He said he was also beatenup and paraded through the streets in PratabNagar on a donkey.

SHOFarukkahWaheed told The ExpressTribune that Aqeel had bruises all over his body from a brutal beating. He said he was released and his complaint against the shopkeeper registered after a thorough investigation in the matter. He said Siddiqi’scomplaint against Aqeel was not backed up by any evidence.

SHOWaheed said a team had raidedSiddiqi’s house for his arrest but he was absent.

The caseregistered against Siddiqi and his alleged accomplices mentions Sections438/12 (punishment for house-trespass), 501 (printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory), 348 (wrongful confinement to extort confession or compel restoration of property), 367 (kidnapping or abducting in order to subject person to grievous hurt, slavery), 447 (punishment for criminal trespass), 148 (rioting, armed with deadlyweapon) and 149 (unlawful assembly) of the PakistanPenalCode. Talking to The Tribune, ZeeshanKhan, a resident of JhangRoad, said the boy was mounted on the donkey and the animal beaten by sticks to run faster. He said he was forced to put on a garland of shoes. The accused later took him away in a car, he added.

“He (the shopkeeper) had no evidence against the boy yet he subjected him to such treatment,” NaghmaRani, a neighbour, said. “No punishment given to them can undo what the boy suffered,” she added.